Background
Drayna, Dennis Theodore was born on August 15, 1952 in Minneapolis. Son of John S. and Mary Joan (Rickard) Drayna.
Drayna, Dennis Theodore was born on August 15, 1952 in Minneapolis. Son of John S. and Mary Joan (Rickard) Drayna.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics, Harvard University, 1981.
Postdoctoral fellow Howard Hughes Medical Institute University Utah, Salt Lake City, 1981-1985. Scientist/senior scientist Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, 1985-1992. Founder, director research Mercator Genetics Inc., Menlo Park, 1992—1996.
Senior investigator, chief section on systems biology of communications disorders, laboratory molecular genetics National Institute on Deafness and other Communications Disoders/National Institutes of Health, since 1996. Member mental retardation review committee National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, since 1992. Organizer 1st and 2d international Chromosome 8 workshops, Vancouver, Canada, Oxford, England, 1993, 94.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Human Genome Organization.
Married Katherine Violet Korda, November 28, 1987. Children: Garrett, Timothy.